Art of ancient Tuva (III – I millennium BC)
No. 3 (14) (2019), Eurasian Heritage
No. 3 (14) (2019)

Art of ancient Tuva (III – I millennium BC)

Eurasian Heritage
УДК7.031(=512.1) DOI: https://doi.org/10.25712/ASTU.2518-7767.2019.03.002
Published 2019-09-30
Marina Evgenievna Kilunovskaya
Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences

eLibrary ID kilunmar@mail.ru

Vladimir Anatolyevich Semenov
Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences

eLibrary ID ranbov@yandex.ru

№ 3 (14) 2019 "Искусство Евразии", научный журнал об искусстве.
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Keywords

Tuva, cave paintings, petroglyphs, arts and crafts, barrows, deer stones, the Bronze Age, Scythian time, Aldy-Bel culture, Uyuk-Saglyn culture,

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Kilunovskaya M. E., Semenov V. A. Art of ancient Tuva (III – I millennium BC) // The Art of Eurasia, 2019. № 3 (14). P. 20-49. URL: https://doi.org/10.25712/ASTU.2518-7767.2019.03.002.
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Abstract

The art of ancient Tuva is represented by different types of monuments: cave paintings, deer stones and stone sculptures, objects found in settlements and burials, as well as random finds. They mainly relate to the Bronze Age, Scythian time and the Middle Ages. Chronological boundary between the 2nd and 1st millennia BC may well be called the border of eras. In the second millennium, the steppes of Central Asia represented an indiscriminate conglomerate of various tribes, in which the carriers of spiritual ideas sought to express their feelings and religious ideas in thousands of cave paintings, in which the bull often dominates as a carrier of an archaic universe that he holds or carries on his back. In the first millennium BC the picture is radically changing. Instead of scattered and disordered ideas in the world of images, a stylistic unity is being developed, which does not exclude the freedom of creativity, nevertheless the Scythian animal style becomes the main aesthetic criterion in both monumental and applied art. It extends from the Chinese wall to the Hungarian Pushta, and it is pointless to dispute its importance as a  single link between the nomadic peoples of Eurasia. Even the influence of ancient civilizations cannot radically change the ideology and philosophy of the Scythian-Siberian Eurasian unity.

https://doi.org/10.25712/ASTU.2518-7767.2019.03.002

Acknowledgments

The study was performed according to the program of fundamental scientific researches of State academies of Sciences on the topic of state work: No. 0184-2018-0009 «Interaction of ancient cultures of Northern Eurasia and the civilizations of the East in the era of paleometal (IV Millennium BC – I Millennium BC)».

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